That episode apparently affected Meša's later contemplative introduction to Death and the Dervish, where the main protagonist Ahmed Nurudin fails to rescue his imprisoned brother. During the war, Selimović's brother, also a communist, was executed by partisans' firing squad for alleged theft, without trial Selimović's letter in defense of the brother was to no avail. After his release, he moved to liberated territory, became a member of Communist Party of Yugoslavia and the political commissar of the Tuzla Detachment of the Partisans.
He spent the first two years of the Second World War in Tuzla, until he was arrested for participation in the Partisan anti-fascist resistance movement in 1943. At that time he participated in the Soko athletic organisation. In 1936, he returned to Tuzla to teach in the gymnasium that today bears his name. His lecturers included Bogdan Popović, Pavle Popović, Vladimir Ćorović, Veselin Čajkanović, Aleksandar Belić and Stjepan Kuljbakin. In 1930, he enrolled to study the Serbo-Croatian language and literature at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology and graduated in 1934. Selimović was born to a prominent Bosnian Muslim family on 26 April 1910 in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he graduated from elementary school and high school. Some of the main themes in his works are the relations between individuality and authority, life and death, and other existential problems. Mehmed "Meša" Selimović ( Serbian Cyrillic: Мехмед „Меша” Селимовић pronounced 26 April 1910 – 11 July 1982) was a Yugoslav writer, whose novel Death and the Dervish is one of the most important literary works in post- World War II Yugoslavia. Tuzla, Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary
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